Family Lore

By Elizabeth Acevedo 

368 pages

Hardback

Book Club spring pick

Lore like oral history. It's mostly a modern fiction novel, but there are some elements of magical realism too? 

yes.

She does not deserve a name.

This was a fun paragraph because a student just shared the band Aventura with me. I liked the song she sent me.

This line, breaking across pages, just struck me as so sad and beautiful. 

I had to look up sainthood here. I don't know who the patron saint of anything is.

The book was beautiful and inevitable. It wasn't a page turner because I wasn't in suspense if what would come next, mostly.

A novel that reads - in the best way - like a research project.